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Pliskow, Dan, 1923-2015

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All play except Marcus Belgrave

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Marcus Belgrave, trumpet, turns his head and smiles at Claude "Fiddler" Williams as Claude plays his fiddle in the center of the stage. Claude's head...

Date Published
April-10-2001
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Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Band warms up

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In Columbine's Champagne Cellar at the Harlequin Café, 8047 Agnes, Detroit, Michigan (8045 Agnes), Marcus Belgrave, trumpet, faces away from the...

Date Published
April-13-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Charlie Gabriel grabs the hand of Claude "Fiddler" Williams

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Charlie Gabriel holds his saxophone with his right hand as he grabs the right hand of Claude "Fiddler" Williams with his left hand. Charlie turns his...

Date Published
April-08-2001
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Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams and others performing

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams is playing his fiddle on the farthest right-hand side of the photograph. Spencer Barefield, jazz guitarist, Marcus Belgrave...

Date Published
April-08-2001
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Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams entertains along with others

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Left to right: Big Bill Bissonnette, trombone, from his right side; Jerome "Scrooge" Harris, drums, looking down and wearing a hat; Charlie Gabriel...

Date Published
April-08-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams gets the microphone next

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands in the center of a school auditorium stage performing on his fiddle. Marcus Belgrave walks toward Claude with a...

Date Published
April-10-2001
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Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams plays with a band on a stage in a school auditorium

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A drum set on the left side of the photograph is too dark to see the drummer; likely Jerome Harris. Dan Pliskow, double bass player, looks left toward...

Date Published
April-10-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams' trio entertains at a café

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams, fiddle, and Spencer Barefield, jazz guitar, sit beside Dan Pliskow, double bass, as they perform from the corner of a...

Date Published
April-13-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Collaboration

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams, on the right side of the photograph stands sideways to the audience to look back at Dan Pliskow, double bassist, and the...

Date Published
April-08-2001
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Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Dan Pliskow and Spencer Barefield perform in a barista bar

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Dan Pliskow, double bass, sits on a tall stool and plucks the string of his bass as he sits next to a baby grand piano that has no lid in a barista...

Date Published
April-13-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Dan Pliskow speaks with Spencer Barefield and Claude "Fiddler" Williams

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The double bass player, Dan Pliskow's, back is to the camera as he speaks with Spencer Barefield, the jazz guitarist. Claude "Fiddler" Williams...

Date Published
April-08-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Marcus Belgrave uses the microphone as most of the band plays

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Marcus Belgrave, trumpet, points at the audience that is not in the photograph and speaks or sings into a microphone he holds with his other hand...

Date Published
April-10-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Marcus, Claude, and Bill stand together for a photograph as others look on

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A photographer stands and bends over a camera from the stage up behind the jazz band on the auditorium floor of a school. Dan Pliskow, double bass...

Date Published
April-08-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Singing is also required sometimes

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Charlie Gabriel, saxophone, Marcus Belgrave, trumpet, and Big Bill Bissonnette, trombone, all grin as they sing into a microphone held by Marcus in...

Date Published
April-10-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Sound check

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A man wearing a sweater and ball cap, has his back to the camera as he stands on the auditorium floor in front of the stage possibly setting up a...

Date Published
April-10-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

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